MS Access: HTML Editor control to use in forms

If you want to get HTML editor within MS Access form, there are couple of solutions available. The free solution I know is to get Not So Elegant HTML Editor. The problem with this editor is that

After looking at this editor, you will never say “so cool”

It is good for basic editing but many important functionality like “Table” editing is missing.

When I had to create HTML Editor within MS Access form, I asked the question to myself “Why to reinvent the wheel?” and the solution I came up with has the main benefits

It is completely FREE

When users will look at it, they will definitely say “so cooooool”.

Rich feature set

XHTML compliant code will be generated and hence output can be used anywhere.

Plugin based architecture can help add extra cool features

Here is a sample of how this editor would look like

The solution is to use readily available Web based HTML Editor like CKEditor, TinyMCE and embed them into MS Access forms. You can easily communicate between the Web based HTML editor and VBA code using VBA DOM manipulation functions available for Microsoft Web Browser ActiveX Control.

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About Vishal Monpara

Vishal Monpara is a full stack Solution Developer/Architect with 13 years of experience primarily using Microsoft stack. He is currently working in Retail industry and moving 1's and 0's from geographically dispersed hard disks to geographically dispersed user leveraging geographically dispersed team members.

I try to run your application. (access2010). I got this error :
“CKEditor requires JavaScript to run. In a browser with no JavaScript support, like yours, you should still see the contents (HTML data) and you should be able to edit it normally, without a rich editor interface.”
Is there a component to activate ?

Hello, dsl for the translation, I’m French. I downloaded the sample Access and CKEditor but that doesn’t. I’m on ACCESS 2010 and I have a message that says “Access denied” on line “v = wbEditor.Document.parentWindow.execScript (FunctionName &”{}”). Thank you for your help.

CKEditor requires JavaScript to run. In a browser with no JavaScript support, like yours, you should still see the contents (HTML data) and you should be able to edit it normally, without a rich editor interface.

I am receiving this message.. I am using windows 8, ms access 2010 and obviously ie10 as default browser.